Squiz the Day / 24 May 2022
24 May 2022
PM Anthony Albanese, US President Joe Biden, Indian PM Narendra Modi and Japan’s PM Fumio Kishida and foreign ministers meet for the QUAD leaders summit – Tokyo
Directors of the Star Entertainment Group and its outgoing chairman John O’Neill are scheduled to appear at the NSW Liquor and Gaming inquiry into its suitability to hold a casino license
Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation launches its Indigenous Employment Index
Independence Day in Eritrea
World Schizophrenia Day
National Coffee Day in Brazil
Miles Franklin literary award longlist announced
Birthdays for Bob Dylan (1941) and Priscilla Presley (1945)
Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686) and Queen Victoria (1819)
• Samuel Morse tapping out “What hath God wrought” in the world’s first telegraph message (1844)
• Amy Johnson becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (1930)
• American management consultant Marilyn Loden first coining the term “glass ceiling” to describe invisible career barriers for women (1978)
• the completion of the world’s largest cat-proof fence (44km) at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary, in central Australia (2018)
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